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Nothing to Attain

By Debra Basham, on June 9, 2022

We are so brief. A one-day dandelion. A seedpod skittering across the ice. We are a feather falling from the wing of a bird. I don’t know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is a cruel trick, and glorious.

~ Louise Eldrich

We looked at […]

August 12, 1962

By Debra Basham, on August 1, 2021

The dharma talk was direct. You don’t have to be a Buddhist to practice the precepts. The precepts are practical. I vow to harm none. I vow not to take what is not freely given. I vow not to misuse sexuality. I vow to refrain from false speech. I vow to refrain from intoxicants that […]

Hair

By Debra Basham, on January 19, 2021

Keep a watchful eye for spiritual materialism. Don’t look for a goal, but practice meditation nevertheless.

Don’t try to push your ideas, don’t dictate, and don’t edit the dharma, the truth and the teachings.

The dharma is yours, so you could relate to the dharma very simply.

Let dharma come to […]

Skies Upon Skies

By Debra Basham, on June 21, 2020

“Skies upon skies are available for your flight.” – Osho Zen Tarot

I feel a little bit like the morning after Christmas, or the ninth day of Hanukkah. For the closing sharing of this eight-day Intensive/Retreat—the culmination of a two-year commitment to study and practice—I had written: When I logged on this morning, Dallas was […]

Hari Om, Holy Spirit

By Debra Basham, on March 8, 2020

Whoa…. fear can spread like wildfire. We can put that fire out.

A friend/colleague is part of several groups I attend here in Florida. She has cancelled the meditation group she hosts in her home and has reached out to another of our mutual groups suggesting the meetings be cancelled because “at least one, […]

Dancing in the Darkness

By Debra Basham, on September 20, 2019

Aaron Daily Quote Everybody wants to be safe and comfortable. For most of you, your habitual pattern around being safe and comfortable is to move into a control mode. And so you try to think it out and plan it out and get it perfect and then rehash the plans and see if they can […]

Say Only

By Debra Basham, on December 23, 2018

In September of 2018, I made a two-year commitment to a study called “The Dharma Path,” with Barbara Brodsky and Aaron. I have once again been amazed at how your intention creates your experience. In Buddhism, dharma means “cosmic law and order,” and is also applied to the teachings of the Buddha. In Buddhist philosophy, […]

Love Will Find a Way

By Debra Basham, on April 12, 2018

The future won’t always be fair.

But we can try.

We can care.

We can choose to connect.

It can be better if we let it.

~ Seth Godin

Many of my days are spent bearing witness to the clarity secure within our souls as our personalities fling destructive BS into our lives. One recent […]

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